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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:14:24 +0000enhourly1President Chris Christie is never going to happenhttp://www.salon.com/2014/10/14/president_chris_christie_is_never_going_to_happen/
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/14/president_chris_christie_is_never_going_to_happen/#commentsTue, 14 Oct 2014 14:25:00 +0000Luke Brinkerhttp://www.salon.com/?p=13795967New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is making all the moves necessary to prepare for a 2016 GOP presidential bid. As chairman of the Republican Governors Association, he’s traveled the country stumping for GOP candidates. He’s courting social conservatives, emphasizing his opposition to abortion rights and marriage equality. To burnish his foreign policy credentials, Christie has made highly-publicized trips to Mexico and Israel and asserted that the sheer force of his belligerent personality would be enough to make Vladimir Putin think twice before encroaching on Ukrainian sovereignty.

]]>http://www.salon.com/2014/10/14/president_chris_christie_is_never_going_to_happen/feed/42Far-right birther’s secret funders: Look who’s backing Islamophobe Frank Gaffneyhttp://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/far_right_birthers_secret_funders_look_whos_backing_islamophobe_frank_gaffney/
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/far_right_birthers_secret_funders_look_whos_backing_islamophobe_frank_gaffney/#commentsWed, 01 Oct 2014 15:21:00 +0000bzeffhttp://www.salon.com/?p=13785725Frank Gaffney has emerged as one of the DC-beltway’s most outspoken critics of American Muslims, purveying conspiracy theories about the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest levels of the U.S. government and birther accusations about Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as president. But even while drawing criticism from civil rights organizations, Gaffney, who served as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1987, has continued to find sources of funding for his organization, the Center for Security Policy, managing a budget of over $3.5 million in 2013.

Salon acquired a copy of the Center for Security Policy’s donor rolls, listing the organization’s biggest donors. And while far from providing the lion’s share of funding, six of the U.S.’ biggest aerospace and defense contractors are supporters of Gaffney’s organization.

]]>http://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/far_right_birthers_secret_funders_look_whos_backing_islamophobe_frank_gaffney/feed/50Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret planshttp://www.salon.com/2014/09/24/heres_who_profits_from_our_new_war_inside_nsa_and_an_army_of_private_contractors_plans/
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/24/heres_who_profits_from_our_new_war_inside_nsa_and_an_army_of_private_contractors_plans/#commentsWed, 24 Sep 2014 10:58:00 +0000bzeffhttp://www.salon.com/?p=13779232A massive, $7.2 billion Army intelligence contract signed just 10 days ago underscores the central role to be played by the National Security Agency and its army of private contractors in the unfolding air war being carried out by the United States and its Gulf States allies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

That war was greatly expanded Monday night when U.S. forces launched a “mix of fighter, bomber, remotely-piloted aircraft and Tomahawk” cruise missiles against ISIS targets in Syria. The Central Command said the strikes were led by the United States with support from Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

INSCOM’s “global intelligence support” contract will place the contractors at the center of this fight. It was unveiled on Sept. 12 by the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), one of the largest military units that collects signals intelligence for the NSA.

Under its terms, 21 companies, led by Booz Allen Hamilton, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, will compete over the next five years to provide “fully integrated intelligence, security and information operations” in Afghanistan and “future contingency operations” around the world.

As Politico reports, Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson is currently facing the uncertainty that many Americans are up against; basic questions like how, in the wake of budget slashing, to put $825 million worth of dinner on the table:

]]>http://www.salon.com/2013/05/16/lockheed_martin_yet_another_victim_of_the_sequester/feed/5Lockheed Martin’s Herculean effort to profit from defense spendinghttp://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/lockheed_martins_herculean_effort_to_profit_from_defense_spending/
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/lockheed_martins_herculean_effort_to_profit_from_defense_spending/#commentsMon, 11 Mar 2013 12:10:00 +0000ahalperinhttp://www.salon.com/?p=13225017When I was a kid obsessed with military aircraft, I loved Chicago's O'Hare airport. If I was lucky and scored a window seat, I might get to see a line of C-130 Hercules transport planes parked on the tarmac in front of the 928th Airlift Wing's hangars. For a precious moment on takeoff or landing, I would have a chance to stare at those giant gray beasts with their snub noses and huge propellersuntil they passed from sight.

What I didn't know then was why the Air Force Reserve, as well as the Air National Guard, had squadrons of these big planes eternally parked at O'Hare and many other airports and air stations around the country. It’s a tale made to order for this time of sequestration that makes a mockery of all the hyperboleabout how any spendingcuts will "hollow out" our forces and "devastate" our national security.

]]>http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/lockheed_martins_herculean_effort_to_profit_from_defense_spending/feed/10Air Force gives Lockheed Martin millions to fix busted Lockheed Martin planehttp://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/air_force_gives_lockheed_martin_millions_to_fix_busted_lockheed_martin_plane/
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/air_force_gives_lockheed_martin_millions_to_fix_busted_lockheed_martin_plane/#commentsThu, 27 Oct 2011 17:58:00 +0000Alex Pareenehttp://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10150141You know how if you buy something that's really expensive and it turns out that it's broken you ask the company that made the thing to fix it, for free, under some sort of "warranty"? That is not how things work in defense contracting. The Air Force is giving Lockheed Martin $24 million to figure out why pilots keep passing out from lack of oxygen while flying in Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptors, the most expensive fighters ever built.